Meja Mwangi began his prolific writing career in the 1970s,when he burst onto the scene with the award-winning Kill Me Quick. He was hailed in various quarters as a rising star in the East African literary constellation who was helping to disprove the claims that East Africa was a literary desert (Taban 1965, Nazareth 1976). Since then, Meja Mwangi has gone on to establish himself as one of the most prolific of Kenyan writers, publishing eleven novels in seventeen years in addition to short stories, children's books and working with a variety of projects in film. Mwangi's works have received awards in Kenya and abroad, they have been translated into six languages, and there are film versions of two of his novels. Read More